Texas is the best state in the Union 🤔

Lenny-I often drive Colorado 82 wishing Texas had built it because then we would have off ramps, on ramps, underpasses and our speed would be a based 75 mph not 55.

PacificRimJobTexas can't even keep their power on during winter because they sold their grid to corporations.

PacificRimJobHow about stop building freeway infrastructure that has to be widened every other year at the cost of billions for taxpayers, and instead install a viable public transportation system that costs about the same amount of money, actually recoups fees from users, and allows people to take a train/walk to their local downtown areas and allow organic community growth.

PacificRimJobTexas can't even keep their power on during winter because they sold their grid to corporations.

PacificRimJobHow about stop building freeway infrastructure that has to be widened every other year at the cost of billions for taxpayers, and instead install a viable public transportation system that costs about the same amount of money, actually recoups fees from users, and allows people to take a train/walk to their local downtown areas and allow organic community growth.

Lenny-2. Really sounds like you just want to strip Texans of their freedom to take away other people's "rights". Doesn't seem very Texan tbh I don't think they would be down for all that. Also as we already agreed on this, Texas rivers are rather safe compared to many rivers. Calling them death traps is just your personal bias coming out.

Lenny-Well we already have freeways and Im just saying we need to do away with traffic lights on the freeway and invest in ramps and underpasses. Which would actually help the enviroment as cars a more efficient when they arnt accelerating to 60 then stoping and having to accelerate back to 60.

Public transport generally sucks compaired to driving your own car unless its something like a high speed rail with enough trains to come every 10 minutes. Unless its faster than a car its usally arguably worse than a car. I understand the desire for better public transport but that doesnt mean letting our freeways rot or everyone giving up cars. Also where I live investing in public transport means more busses as a rail isnt a viable solution, so you still will need freeways.

Also America is alot bigger than Japan and everything is alot more spread out even in a town like Aspen you arnt going to walk over to snowmass to go ski in the morning. Youve gotta take the bus which means investing in our motorways.

ThaLoraxBahhaha. I live in Aspen and work in Snowmass. You just used the worst example to prove public transportation is bad. Aspen to Snowmass is a free bus ride every 15 minutes from 6am-8pm, then every 30 minutes until 2:15am. It's one of, if not the best public transportation systems of any mountain town.

Also, Colorado spends a ton of money maintaining their roads, has a statewide bus system (Bustang/Pegasus), and lite rails all over the Denver region

ThaLoraxBahhaha. I live in Aspen and work in Snowmass. You just used the worst example to prove public transportation is bad. Aspen to Snowmass is a free bus ride every 15 minutes from 6am-8pm, then every 30 minutes until 2:15am. It's one of, if not the best public transportation systems of any mountain town.

Also, Colorado spends a ton of money maintaining their roads, has a statewide bus system (Bustang/Pegasus), and lite rails all over the Denver region

Lenny-Living in Aspen and working in Snowmass wouldnt give you a good perspective on down valley and going up into Aspen. Thats where we need underpasses and ramps not in Aspen proper. The public transport isnt free down valley like it is in Aspen also doesnt come as often. Having 4 traffic lights for El Jebel is a fucking travesty that could easily be solved with a couple ramps and underpasses.

My point of mentioning Aspen and Snowmass was just to say theres no way you would walk between the two casually for a morning ski. Not to say the public transport is terrible just that walking isnt an option for even that "short" of a distance.

Ide like for you to drive or take the bus from Glenwood to Aspen at 7am on a thursday and then tell me theres no issue with our transport system in the valley. I drive down valley every morning and see 30 miles of backed up traffic most mornings. Imo a good fix for this would be to add a few key ramps and underpasses and leave everything else as it is. Not sure why thats controversial.

Lenny-Living in Aspen and working in Snowmass wouldnt give you a good perspective on down valley and going up into Aspen. Thats where we need underpasses and ramps not in Aspen proper. The public transport isnt free down valley like it is in Aspen also doesnt come as often. Having 4 traffic lights for El Jebel is a fucking travesty that could easily be solved with a couple ramps and underpasses.

My point of mentioning Aspen and Snowmass was just to say theres no way you would walk between the two casually for a morning ski. Not to say the public transport is terrible just that walking isnt an option for even that "short" of a distance.

Ide like for you to drive or take the bus from Glenwood to Aspen at 7am on a thursday and then tell me theres no issue with our transport system in the valley. I drive down valley every morning and see 30 miles of backed up traffic most mornings. Imo a good fix for this would be to add a few key ramps and underpasses and leave everything else as it is. Not sure why thats controversial.

theabortionatorYeah, you can't walk between them because it's not a walking distance. The bus system in Aspen is pretty fucking good. One of the best imo. As far as coming from closer to glenwood. Maybe adding more of a solid bus land could help. Living in snowmass it was smooth sailing to highlands bmilk, ajax. The bus worked well and most people parked in lots and utilized it.

ThaLoraxI don't live in Aspen proper. You just assumed that. You also assumed I don't know about the paid line. Did you know RFTA is going to experiment with free rides for all lines?

I live in unincorporated aspen, on the paid line, and I catch the bus from mid-valley-ish at 7:20am quite regularly. It's overcrowded at that time, sure. But it works, effectively.

To your point on walkability (is that a word?), comparing the walk between Aspen and Snowmass and and walkable cities is another false analogy. Obviously removing roads in a place like here doesn't make sense. But comparatively, nobody lives here. In densely populated areas, it does make sense

Lenny-Is english your second language?🤔

Lenny-Well we already have freeways and Im just saying we need to do away with traffic lights on the freeway and invest in ramps and underpasses. Which would actually help the enviroment as cars a more efficient when they arnt accelerating to 60 then stoping and having to accelerate back to 60.

Public transport generally sucks compaired to driving your own car unless its something like a high speed rail with enough trains to come every 10 minutes. Unless its faster than a car its usally arguably worse than a car. I understand the desire for better public transport but that doesnt mean letting our freeways rot or everyone giving up cars. Also where I live investing in public transport means more busses as a rail isnt a viable solution, so you still will need freeways.

Also America is alot bigger than Japan and everything is alot more spread out even in a town like Aspen you arnt going to walk over to snowmass to go ski in the morning. Youve gotta take the bus which means investing in our motorways.

PacificRimJob"just one more lane, bro - we already have freeways, lets just spend billions making them wider" is just asking for more traffic. Case and point, the Katy Freeway in Houston. A million lanes, always full of traffic because of induced demand. it's the same problem you see in California. Texas is also just following California's 1990s mistakes and building sprawling suburbs continuously in all directions - filled with predatory HOA's and making the flood potential even worse from the onslaught of destructive hurricanes that Texas is likely to get from now on as the Gulf of Mexico increases in temperature by the year. Taxes are absolutely bound to explode in coming years as the infrastructure lacks the tax base to maintain, and suburban neighbourhoods are going to start needing to rely on state coffers for funding, if not go bankrupt. That's what happened to California and Texas is falling into the same trap.

Also, Spain is about the same size of Texas, with a comparable, yet even smaller economy and yet cities like Barcelona and Madrid have awesome commuter train systems and the country has the largest high speed network outside of China. Texans could easily have this, but are often just insecure dorks who demand pickup trucks the size of a sherman tank because they rely on them for proof of manhood, and infrastructure to hold them. Unfortunately this isnt only seen in texas, but it sure is brought to an extreme degree there...

I don't think we should give up on cars altogether, as they have a place, especially in rural areas that are spread out but we shouldnt be giving land up for cheap to developers so they could build shitty suburbs, and then spending billions to accommodate them with wider road projects and more shitty wasteful parking lots when trains and denser housing are far more efficient for everyday commuting and a happier, more social way of life. Texas is all too often seeing the transit oriented developments that are becoming popular in other states and scoffing at the idea.

Lenny-Yeah im not gonna read this bs if you wont take the time to properly read what Ive wrote. Never once have I asked to add lanes. Also very few people just buy a truck because its big and they are popular all across the country.

Lenny-Well they are the most "anti big government" state in the union so having the government controling the lights doesnt sound nice to them. That being said ERCOT is greatly influenced by the Public Utility Commission of Texas and the Texas Legislature so its not just one random guy managing it. Its not that far removed from how the western interconnection and eastern interconnection are managed its just more privatized. Last winter they had no major power outages just like the rest of the US. Two years ago when they lost power from unexpected cold temps they began renovating the infrastructure to deal with it better and it seems to have proven effective. They dont deal with cold temps very often so gold plating the infrastructure to deal with it didnt seem necessary at the time. Most places in the world dont prepare for things that are very unlikely so picking at this seems petty. If a massive heat wave swept through an area predominantly cold you would see people die of heat strokes because they often lack AC we saw this in the UK recently. 🤠

Lenny-Yeah im not gonna read this bs if you wont take the time to properly read what Ive wrote. Never once have I asked to add lanes. Also very few people just buy a truck because its big and they are popular all across the country.

PacificRimJobLol I'm not saying you specifically, ya doofus, I'm saying Texans in general.

Texas has more unnecessarily large-ass trucks per-capita than anywhere else in the country, and that's objective fact. The top three selling vehicles in the USA are the Ford, Chevy, and Ram mid-sized trucks, and Texas buys a fucking assload of them.

PartyBullshiitMost brands literally make a “texas” edition pick up lol

ThaLoraxI don't understand how you think that the solution to too many cars causing traffic is anything but reducing cars on the road

Lenny-I didnt assume it, you literally said "I live in Aspen" which means the incorporated town of Aspen. You live in "unincorporated aspen" a special district which isnt really Aspen. Its more like El Jebel but for dipshits.

The rest of it is just semantics. What you think "effective" is. The reality is that it takes much less time to travel a mile in texas than a mile in this valley. My solution for this is just a few key ramps and underpasses to stop the traffic getting clogged up throughout the valley. This would turn your hour and a half trip from glenwood to aspen (the actual town not dipshit land) into a 45 min highly eco frendly trip.

We dont need fucking bus lanes, bike lanes, high speed trains, or anything else. They just need to Texify highway 82.

Farmville420Public transit would fix traffic because there would be less people driving, I've driven to aspen in the summer and there was literally no traffic at any point on Friday night or the Sunday afternoon when I left

ThaLoraxI don't understand how you think that the solution to too many cars causing traffic is anything but reducing cars on the road

AbiHfirst off. ROOD. Peep this pic of me skiing in Texas

UM BET LOOK I DID IT #SKITEXAS

Wow. I cannot even. I thought we were FRIENDS

I hate Texas too but wow just wow so much hate




























(I love it)

AbiHI donno why so many people downvoted this but it was a joke.

I hate this state


I do on the other hand love most of the people in my town. So extremely kind.


other than that, let er burn, hell it was 112 this weekend we practically did ha shoot me

cannot WAIT to get to Washington as soon as humanly possible faaak

Lenny-Well damn. You could atleast say why you dont like it instead of being such a negitive nancy all the time.

ThaLoraxIf you projected any harder, you could see this from the moon

SteezyYeeterwow blud lost hella karma from this

Lenny-They dont want you knowing just how good Texas actually is. Its the classic "this mountain is awful dont bother skiing here" local vibe sorta thing.🙄